I just got back from our cake tasting/rental day. I feel a huge weight of stress just lifted off my shoulders. All our major vendors are finally hired. First we stopped at the rental company place. We added some stuff, removed some stuff, changed some stuff. It was a lot easier to talk to them in person than it was on the phone: they always seemed really busy when I called and I feel I got much better service today in person. AND our bill went down dramatically with our changes. So yay! Then we went to the cake tasting. I'm not going to lie: I was a little put-off. It was in a kinda not-nice-looking shopping center. But the minute I tried the cake I was in love. She obviously uses real butter in her buttercream. The cake was moist and absolutely delicious and I am so excited that we will be eating it on our wedding night. It was sweet- but not too sweet- and was just perfect. She is going to replicate the simple, yet beautiful, cake I fell in love with 18 months ago when I first started looking for wedding ideas. I am going to try to order some loose flowers from Shaye (who did our wedding flowers) to break up the layers a little bit since it's all white frosting. We're doing four tiers: chocolate, vanilla, marble, and chocolate chip. The price was beyond fair and includes delivery from Egg Harbor to Stone Harbor and set-up at our reception AND a complimentary anniversary cake next year. 
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Houston, we have a contract! Woohoo! After months of talking about it, we FINALLY got our contract with our caterer. We are signed, sealed, and official. I could cry. SUCH a HUGE weight off my shoulders... you know, since we have 9 weeks until our wedding and all haha.
Today we are going to meet with our rental company to change a few things, see some things and possibly add them to our list, and put down a deposit. Then we're off to taste some cake! Hopefully this bakery will be "the one," and we can sign a contract today. After the deposit is down at the the rental place and the cake lady is (hopefully) booked, I'll be screaming from the rooftops- but not on Facebook haha- about how ALL of our vendors will have been booked. Please send positive happy vibes out into the universe that everything goes well and that I can finally relax after today!! PS- I got some texts yesterday from friends saying they got my invitations already!! That was SO fast! We might even get some RSVPs before the mailing week is over! We are down to double digits-- 99 days! Holy moly, I can't believe we are SO close. At this time last year I didn't even have a date solidified, and now I'm down to mostly little details and getting super nervous about paying for all of this and making sure it's going to come together smoothly.
I haven't written in a little while because things are really busy right now between work, planning our wedding, and planning the pre-wedding parties for the wedding we're both in two weeks before ours. But lots of things are done now and there are still some things I am just itching to scratch off of our "to do" list that I'm obsessed with these days. I literally have a copy on this website, a copy printed out in my planning binder, mini lists everywhere, and a list of weekly checks in my iPad. Crossing something off is so satisfying. So here's what we've recently got done... -We got our guest book tree in the mail! I used a free graphic I found online, added our name and wedding date in PhotoShop and bought a Groupon to have it printed on canvas. It is SO cute and I can't wait to hang it in our future house! -We also got the picture frame for our sand ceremony. It's a vase/frame combination that we got online that wasn't marketed for sand ceremonies, so instead of paying $50/60 we paid $9.99 on clearance. Love! -Bridesmaid's dresses arrived yesterday! They are SO pretty. The colour is amazing! When we ordered them, we only got to see a small swatch of the colour, so we had to use our imaginations on the rest of the dress. It is so vibrant and lovely. We also got the guys their ties and pocket squares in the same colours. -I figured out my something old/new/borrowed/blue and attached a sixpence to my barefoot sandal. My old is the promise ring my dad gave my mum when they were teenagers; my new is my new last name (Mrs. undies!), my borrowed is a lady bug brooch that a close friend carried on her own wedding day, and my blue is my crinoline. Nice to have those little details sorted out! -I bought serving trays for our seating card display (we're going to fill them with sand and put the seating cards inside). I painted them white and finished them with an acrylic clear coat, so those are ready to go! -Started working on wedding cake stuff with my mum. I think we have our cake!! On my list for this weekend: -Call about rentals (so nervous to do this for some reason- probably because I know it will be expensive!) -Harass our caterer to send us a contract. This is killing me! -Call to make a fitting appointment for tuxes (the shop owners were on vacation so we had to wait for this one) -Call about alterations and set up my first fitting Hopefully my next update finds that bottom paragraph "checked off!" One of these days I'm going to post a giant super post with tons of pictures of all the little details that are currently hanging out around our house and at FMIL's house. Till then, you'll just have to use your imagination <3 | Planning Blog
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